Why George Stephanopoulos Wakes Up At 2:15 Every Morning To Meditate

When George Stephanopoulos greets viewers each weekday morning on
ABC's "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m., he's been awake for a
full five hours,
the New York Times reports.

In a
behind-the-scenes feature on the top morning shows —
including NBC's "Today" and "CBS This Morning" — the Times
reveals that Stephanopoulos gets out of bed at 2:15 a.m. on
workdays, earlier than any of his peers. He immediately begins
meditating to focus his mind and energy.

Stephanopoulos then commutes to ABC's Times Square offices to
catch up on the news in preparation for the show, which he
continues through wardrobe and makeup up until the cameras go
live.

He's one of many high-performing professionals who begins each
morning with meditation, a practice that can take many forms but
tends to be a minimum of 10 minutes spent focusing solely on deep
and slow breaths.

Twitter cofounder and Square CEO
Jack Dorsey, hedge fund manager Ray
Dalio, and media mogul
Oprah Winfrey have all said that starting the day with
meditation allows them to rid their bodies of stress so that they
can immediately begin working intensely without nervous energy.

It was this scientific evidence that convinced Stephanopoulos to
give meditation a shot, specifically Transcendental Meditation, he told The
Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington at her Third Metric
conference in 2013. Now he can't live without it.